Features and Improvements

• request:get-data#0 should support Chunked Transfer Encoding by @adamretter in #4343
• Use newer Java 8 JVM memory options for better compatibility with Docker by @adamretter in #4282
• Improve performance of JAC Query Dialog by @adamretter in #4357
• Improve XSLT errors by @adamretter in #4373
• Limit the number of hardware threads to a max of 16 in some tests by @adamretter in #4370
• Do not override Bearer Authentication with Basic Authentication by @adamretter in #4376
• Fix issues with range, precision, and exponent with fn:xml-to-json by @adamretter in #4388
• Improve out-of-scope detection for binary variables by @adamretter in #4410
• Report null results instead of throwing NPE by @adamretter in #4489
• Capture xs:anyURI error details in XMLDB Module by @adamretter in #4353
• Improvements to system:as-user by @adamretter in #4350

Bug Fixes

• Fix regression in util:document-id by @adamretter in #4271
• Fix a security privilege escalation issue with XQueryTrigger by @adamretter in #4275
• Fix XQuery Trigger chaining by @adamretter in #4283
• Allow BigDecimal and BigInteger values to be declared via XML:DB API by @adamretter in #4419
• Backport of encoding and file module fixes by @line-o in #4324
• Send a valid HTTP Accept Header by @adamretter in #4299
• Reinstate all XQuery 3 tests by @adamretter in #4310
• Fix XML Catalogue Resolution by @adamretter in #4329
• Fix catalog uris when using Windows Paths by @adamretter in #4339
• Add missing entity-resolver elements to the Schema for collection.xconf by @adamretter in #4363
• override resource type from backup metadata by @reinhapa in #4380
• Share common code between RestoreHandler and SystemImportHandler by @adamretter in #4403
• Fix additional issues with ResourceType and MediaType during Restore by @adamretter in #4404
• Fix the Node Test for document-node(element(name)) by @adamretter in #4396
• Update IntelliJ IDEA IDE config for eXist-db 5.5.0-SNAPSHOT by @adamretter in #4417
• Fix numerous bugs in numeric operations by @adamretter in #4436
• Fix the use of Function Reference from with a Predicate by @adamretter in #4415
• Avoid an NPE when disposing Binary Values by @adamretter in #4463
• Fix resource leak (and file lock) by @adamretter in #4524
• Change URL for two unparsed-text tests by @adamretter in #4551
• Fix issues with document-node lookups on various axis by @adamretter in #4549
• Fixes an issue with XSuite not being able to run some formulations of XQsuite by @adamretter in #4590
• Jetty dtd references must now use https instead of http by @StephanMa in #4619

Updated Dependencies

• Update to Xerces 2.12.2 by @adamretter in #4307

Full Changelog: https://github.com/eXist-db/exist/compare/eXist-5.4.1...eXist-5.5.0